Season 6

Sarah Potter comes on the season finale to talk about the time she she had to pay half her salary in medical bills, and how long it took for her to finally get a diagnosis for her debilitating illness. She also talks about why she married her now husband – it does have to do with love, but money was also involved – the shame she felt over her financial situation and why “safe” is her word of the year as it relates to her finances.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• How many medical tests and months it finally took for Sarah to get a real medical diagnosis
• Why she believes her body gave out after dealing with an an abusive ex-husband, a special needs child and managing a business as a single mom
• How her and her how husband are tackling her insurmountable debt (and which types)
• What Sarah is doing to feel safe around her finances

Resources:

• Patient Advocate Foundation – help with medical debt
• Mother of Marketing
• Your Color is Red
• 7 Tips for Merging Finances in Blended Families
• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Emotional Spending Guide
• Values Based Spending Guide

Trigger Warning: this episode talks about stillbirth and some graphic descriptions of birth.

Winter Redd, host of the podcast Still A Part of Us, comes on the show to talk about how one year ago she and her husband had to bury their stillborn child. She talks about what the costs were – both at the hospital and for the funeral – how she grieved, and how the power of community was the saving grace during such a trying time.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• How far along Winter was in her pregnancy when she couldn’t feel her son’s heartbeat
• What she had to pay in medical costs and funeral bills
• How a stranger changed how she viewed using money to help her community
• How Winter wants to remember her son Brannan and the legacy she wants to leave to the world

Resources:

• The Little Love Foundation (financial assistance for families who need funeral arrangements)
• From diagnostics to autopsy to burial, stillbirths are alarmingly expensive in America
• Hospital Costs Associated with Stillbirth Delivery
• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Emotional Spending Guide
• Values Based Spending Guide

 Michelle Jackson, founder of Michelle is Money Hungry, comes on the show to talk about the time she quit her extremely stable job without a backup plan and bought a one way ticket to Australia to recuperate from job related stress. She talks about how she managed to still pay off — get this— over 30 different debt accounts, how she found work afterwards, and the one question she asked herself before making such a drastic life change.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• What exactly are values and how they relate to your financial life
• How the same values can play out differently for different people
• How to budget using your values in during leaner times
• Why financial experts aren’t all they’re cracked up to be

Resources:

• Michelle is Money Hungry
• Michelle’s podcast
• When Burnout Is a Sign You Should Leave Your Job
• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Emotional Spending Guide
• Values Based Spending Guide

This week’s episode is all about why your values with your finances are more important than ever. It sounds like some hokey concept that only people with tons of money can do, you know we have time to think about what really matters to us. But I assure you it’s not. While it’s vague, using values as way to guide your financial life is going to help you, whether you’re coming to grips with your current money situation or your bank account is stuffed to the max.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• What exactly are values and how they relate to your financial life
• How the same values can play out differently for different people
• How to budget using your values in during leaner times
• Why financial experts aren’t all they’re cracked up to be

Resources:

• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Emotional Spending Guide
• Values Based Spending Guide

Cait Howerton, financial counselor and coach, comes on the show to talk about the time she left for college and her parents finding out she’s a lesbian. She chats about how she was still able to afford college, what the true costs were for her after she came out, and how her money relationship has changed since fully becoming part of the LGBTQ community.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• Why Cait didn’t feel comfortable talking to her parents about her sexuality growing up
• What happened when she came out and not by choice
• What some of the opportunity costs are even though Cait is financially stable
• What it really cost her to move away from home
• How Cait reconciled with her parents, although their relationship isn’t the same as before

Resources:

• Work with Cait at Smartpath
• Follow Cait in Twitter
• Connect with Cait on LinkedIn
• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Emotional spending guide
• Values Based Spending Guide

This week’s episode is all about removing your self worth from your net worth. As in, you’re still a person of value whether or not you have a lot of money or earning power. In general, society teaches us that we need to constantly produce or have proof of wealth in order for us to feel good about ourselves. So let’s dig a little bit deeper about what this means and how can we start to remove our financial situation from our self worth.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• What exactly is self worth and how that ties into our financial life
• Why social media isn’t the source of all our problems
• What happens when we use money to measure our sense of self
• Tools to start removing self worth from your net worth

Resources:

• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Emotional Spending Guide
• Values Based Spending Guide

This mid-season special bonus episode talks about the theme of resiliency and how that can translate to your financial life. I’ve invited a few friends of the podcast to come on to chat how they’ve moved through adversity in their financial lives and some lessons we can all learn from them.

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What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• How Andy was able to pay for a mortgage that he couldn’t afford
• How Lindsay pushed through her anxieties after almost giving back her scholarship money when she felt she couldn’t complete her paper
• How Ashleigh thrived after failing out of college shortly before graduating
• How Badr got over his fears about asking his podcast listeners for money
• How Dustin built a real estate empire when he got laid off at his “stable” government job three weeks after coming back from paternity leave
• How Jen managed to handle being a military wife when she moved to a new city and her husband was deployed for a year
• How Jessica overcame joblessness and foreclosure during the last U.S. recession
• How Mike got over his trauma from a major biking accident

Resources:

• Getting Financially Intimate With Your Spouse With Andy Hill
• Marriage Kids and Money Podcast
• Utilizing Financial Therapy With Lindsay Bryan-Podvin
• Admiral Rickover and his Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program
• Her Dinero Matters Podcast
• How Fear And Confidence Affect Our Money Decisions With Jen Hemphill
• Mind Money Balance Podcast
• Every Single Dollar
• Successfully Unemployed Podcast
• The Level Up Leadership Podcast
• The Short Box Podcast
• 7 Tips to Live on a Low Income (Without Feeling Deprived)
• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Values Based Spending Guide

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Clint Proctor, a former pastor and now freelance writer at Wallet Wise Guy comes on the show to talk about  how he and his wife lived on less than $30,000 a year and were still able to meet many of their financial goals. He shares the emotional realities of the pressure he felt trying to balance a budget and his insecurities when his livelihood was dependent, in his own words “on people making charitable donations.”

Clint also shares why he transitioned away from the ministry, and how he and his wife always got on the same page about their financial and life goals.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• How much Clint made as a former pastor
• Why Clint was afraid of disappointing his wife with the amount he used to make
• What ways Clint felt insecure and uncomfortable giving advice to those who made more money than him
• How Clint was able to cross off their family’s bucket list goals despite living on a low income
• Why Clint decided to move away from being a pastor

Resources:

• Wallet Wise Guy
• 7 Tips to Live on a Low Income (Without Feeling Deprived)
• Episode 66 – Buying a Home in Poverty With Charis Hill
• Episode 61 – A 69 Year Old’s Financial Regrets With John Morrow
• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Values Based Spending Guide

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Andie Kramer and Al Harris, dynamic duo of practicing attorneys who have been mentoring women and speaking and writing about gender communication, including the book “It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace” join me on this episode to chat about why traditional corporate workplaces don’t normally offer a work/home integration, why women feel like it’s a zero sum game in when climbing the ranks, why it might be your fault when it comes to working alongside colleagues, and how we can be a better advocate for all in the working world.

Stick around to the end where I’m going to distill takeaways from your conversation including statistics about why the gender gap exists and some practical questions we can all have a better time at work.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• The definition of a “toxic” workplace
• Why career interruptions happen far more to women (and the surprising statistic on women leaving the workforce)
• Why it’s not always up to others when it comes to negotiating for better work situations
• Why women are better negotiators than men
• How societal expectations mean it’s a zero sum game for women in the traditional workforce
• How we can be an advocate for all in the workplace

Resources:

• Learn more from Andie and Al
• Why Women Should Skip Business School
• Dynamics of the Gender gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors
• Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work
• It’s Not You It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias that Built It 
• Follow Andie and Al on Facebook
• Connect with Andie on LinkedIn
• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Values Based Spending Guide
• Buzzsprout